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parentage|ˈpɛərəntɪdʒ|
[a. F. parentage (12th c. in Littré), f. parent parent + -age.]
1. Exercise of the functions of a parent; parental conduct or treatment. rare.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon iv. 123 Our fader..sholde have slayne vs, if it hadde not be our lorde that kepte vs therfro..Sore harde parentage dyd he shewe to vs, our naturell fader. 1623J. Wodroephe Marrow Fr. Tongue 478/2 Good Amitie is a second Parentage. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. 269 Plato ordains community of wives, and interdicts parentage.
†2. Parents collectively. Obs. rare.
1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1851 This blessed Audry from her yonge aege Was..Obedyent lowly vnto her parentage. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 27 He..Inquyrd, which of them most did love her parentage?
3. Derivation or descent from parents, esp. in reference to the particular parent or parents; ‘birth’, lineage.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Parentela..Parentage: auncestrie. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. ii. 152 The elder [child],..ignorant of his birth and parentage, Became a Bricklayer, when he came to age. 1664Power Exp. Philos. Pref. 18 That doubly Honourable (both for his parts and parentage) Mr. Boyle. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ix. 363 Settlements by parentage..all legitimate children being really settled in the parish where their parents are settled. 1870Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 2) I. App. 714 The alleged parentage of her son Harold was generally doubted.
b. fig. Derivation from an author or source, origin.
1581Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 35 This worde, γραµµατικη, with..γραϕικη, both the two of one parentage and petigree. 1641Wilkins Math. Magick i. ii. (1648) 9 We shall find it to spring from honourable parentage. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 153 The superstition..is of very ancient and respectable parentage. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 436 Sin..shows by ethical likeness its Satanic parentage.
4. spec. Derivation or descent from parents in relation to inherited rank or character; hereditary degree or quality; ‘family’, ‘birth’. Usually with qualifying adj.; in quot. 1608 absol. good birth, high rank.
1490Caxton Eneydos xi. 41 They whiche ben borne of basse parentage. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 38 Cicile Duches of Yorke..a woman of small stature, but of muche honour and high parentage. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 649 Heyres of great parentage in the South part. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iv. 39 He askt me of what parentage I was; I told him of as good as he. 1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 49 Poore women which neither haue parentage, nor beauty, nor riche apparel to set them forth. 1754Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. iii. 95 They upbraided him with the Meanness of his Parentage. 1838Lytton Alice i. xi, Born of humble parentage.
†5. Relationship, kinship; concr. relations collectively, kindred. Obs.
1548Ld. Somerset Epist. Scots A iv b, By mariage..one bloude, one lignage and parentage, is made of twoo. 1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1001/1 By equalitie and loue, which is by parentage and mariage. 1657Earl of Monmouth tr. Paruta's Pol. Disc. 56 If Cato had not despised the Parentage offered him by Pompey. 1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal xv. Notes (1697) 382 The Souldier is also priviledg'd to make a Will, and to give away his Estate, which he got in War..without consideration of Parentage, or Relations. 1768Boswell Corsica ii. (ed. 2) 93 Signor Luiggi Giafferi..who had a numerous parentage.
6. The condition or status of a parent; parenthood. Also fig.
1876Gladstone Homeric Synchr. 165 This supposes that Tyre, since it had reached the age of political parentage, must have come into possession of considerable power some time before. 1877E. S. Phelps Story of Avis xv. 275 Romances, in which parentage is represented as a blindly deifying privilege, which it were an irreverence to associate with teething..or an insufficient income. 1887Blackmore Springhaven III. 54 Another race..with doubts whether marriage could make parentage between them.
7. = parage 4.
1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Parage, This Parage being an equality of duty, or service among brothers and sisters, some have called it Fratriage and Parentage. |